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by dghughes 11y ago
Give or take demerit points, in my area of the world there are 9 points and when gone you no longer have a driver's license. It's for severe infractions such as DUI, reckless driving, excessive speed. Although for a speeding tick
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by dghughes 11y ago
From three years ago using wifi as a radar source to view people inside buildings, maybe it's "unofficially" in use you know experimenting, for science. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-08&#
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by dghughes 11y ago
I have a very hard time finding anything to fit me as a 5'8" slim male it's nearly impossible. I am somewhere between medium and small sometimes one or the other or in the middle. I've had pants tailored and they were a
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by dghughes 11y ago
Yeah that threw me too when I thought the same thing I never thought about how difficult it would be to get rid of heat in space I figured just let it go out into space not thinking there isn't anything to send the heat into; no mediu
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by dghughes 11y ago
User Gys (above) suggested an uninhabited island but the Mount Athos region is pretty sparse 126 sq miles and 1800 people living there, still technically Greece but not Mount Olympus although sort of near it (100 miles away). I don't
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by dghughes 11y ago
The original Olympic games were held in honour of Zeus (God) so really the games should be held in the Mount Athos region of Greece an autonomous monastic stare in Greece. What better place to hold games originally religious in nature from
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by dghughes 11y ago
In my area on and island of about 200 miles long by 30 miles wide it's mainly farming and also the majority ~75% of the population lives in the capital city. Too much demand for too little volume and modern conveniences of coffee shops
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by dghughes 11y ago
I've never understood people who can do that maybe it's a white noise effect not so much the music I can't do that. Actually I just realized that's not true I can listen to instrumental music specifically classical just
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by dghughes 11y ago
Got a non-spammy link?
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by dghughes 11y ago
I live on an Island in Canada population 140,000 right now it's cool 18C/64F but even we have water restrictions and have been for the last three years. I can't even imagine a desert climate with millions of people even findi
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by dghughes 11y ago
Yeah Newfoundland people have a very thick dialect some so much it can be very hard to understand to anyone not from the island. I'm not from Ireland but both my paternal grandparents' ancestors are from Monaghan and Ulster. It&#
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by dghughes 11y ago
And when people are young and better able to recover from injury or disease the medical system I'm sure is not thought of. When you hit 40 you get a glimpse how fragile we are and how valuable the consistency of health is.
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by dghughes 11y ago
I'm from the Maritimes and have never heard anyone here i know say aboot I think to certain people in the US it just sounds that way. I knew a girl from Liverpool England and she thought I was from Ireland, not 100% convinced but more
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by dghughes 11y ago
How well could an ocean-going ship float in freshwater lake Nicaragua? And I doubt the lake would stay clear after ships drag in seawater.
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by dghughes 11y ago
A man in the US tried to claim it as a new country. http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/va-man-plants-flag-claim...
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by dghughes 11y ago
>and the criminal simply walks away.. I think 'sails away' would be more apt.
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by dghughes 11y ago
The Turbot War off the southeast coast of Canada (Newfoundland) is a good example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbot_War Canada almost went to war with Spain over it and German and Spanish military ships were patro
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by dghughes 11y ago
In BC Canada Nestle is also causing a stink over water use but it's not why you think. NAFTA says that once bulk sales of water begin it that's it Pandora's Box can't be shut. People in BC and Canada are worried if Nest
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by dghughes 11y ago
You see links to "it" on the intial page.
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by dghughes 11y ago
Summer began weeks ago by various definitions of it.
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by dghughes 11y ago
Bad, bad stuff on there. No way.
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by dghughes 11y ago
Alexis Tsipras is genius the referendum means he doesn't have to do his job. He can just say "See you all decided not me."
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by dghughes 11y ago
Being born in and still a citizen of a Commonwealth nation should make it easier for OP to emigrate to Canada. (is it still called emigrate if it's from a country not your own to another?)
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by dghughes 11y ago
I think you should have put "my games" and "my music".
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by dghughes 11y ago
And 60 million 14 year-old girls "swifties" commenting on each one and blasting anyone who dares say anything remotely bad about Taylor Swift. If they knew of HN it would be a flame war (to used a 90s reference) in here.
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by dghughes 11y ago
I don't own a CD or DVD player, dedicated film camera, dedicated video camera, speakers, typewriter, game console, CRT TV. These days I have a flat screen TV, smartphone, a game console, plus a few computers with peripherals; router,
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by dghughes 11y ago
Maybe Apple is using it as a decoy to draw attention away from the Apple watch. It's funny though since Apple said "Hey Apple Records in England we want to name our company Apple oh no we'll never be involved in selling any m
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by dghughes 11y ago
It also seems in some situations protestor are trying to be a warrior too how many people protesting these days wear masks now compared to 50 years ago? I'd say it's a culture problem both police and the people they interact with
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by dghughes 11y ago
The abstract didn't mention which hemisphere the study was run I'm assuming the northern hemisphere. It would be interesting to see a similar study for the southern hemisphere.
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by dghughes 11y ago
Speaking of rap/hip hop I wasn't born in 1968 but I a Canadian kid was on a vacation in NY in 1977 but it was in August. I thought it would have been interesting if I had been there in NY city in July 1977 when the big blackout o

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